Professional Development Program 2008
Writing
CONDUCTING
MEETINGS AND WRITING MINUTES
David Grantham and Kevin Norton
9am–4pm,Wednesday 4 June—$535 ND
9am-4pm, 10 October - $535 ND
This course deals with all the important aspects of conducting, or participating
in, formal meetings. Included are standard practices for convening meetings,
preparing agenda, distributing papers, conducting meetings, taking and
preparing minutes, and action arising from meetings. Attention is paid
to the purpose, content and style of minutes.
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CORRESPONDENCE
AND REPORT WRITING
Bob
Bolitho
9am—4pm, Monday 16 & Tuesday 17 June—$795
ND
9am-4pm, 26 & 27 August - $795 ND
9am - 4pm, 5 & 6 November - $795 ND
This course presents professional writing techniques that emphasise
clarity, conciseness and readability in correspondence, reports, briefs,
submissions and other documents. It demonstrates these techniques with
sample documents and through group writing and revising activities.
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EDITING
AND PROOFREADING FOR THE WORKPLACE
Bob Bolitho
9am–4pm, Thursday 12 & Friday 13 June—$795
ND
9am - 4pm, 19 & 20 August - $795 ND
9am - 4pm, 27 & 28 October - $795 ND
All written communication can benefit from the services of an editor
and a proofreader. This course looks at the skills and tools editors
and proofreaders bring to their roles. It offers practical examples
of the things editors and proofreaders look for in various parts of
documents. It also shows how they use house style, style sheets, and
proofreading marks and symbols.
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ESSENTIAL
GRAMMAR FOR WRITERS AND EDITORS
Bob Bolitho
9am – 4pm,Tuesday 3 & Wednesday 4
June— $795 ND
9am - 4pm, 4 & 5 August - $795ND
9am -4pm, 21 & 22 October - $795ND
This course takes you beyond the “sounds good” school of
writing and editing to an understanding of the essential organising
principles of language. Get to know your language better not by memorising
archaic “rules” but by studying examples of how language
elements function to produce coherent, meaningful speech.
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HOW
TO BLOG—IN SEVEN EASY STEPS
Gillian Polack
9am - 4.45pm, 28 August - $535ND
It seems that everyone is getting a blog these days. This course will
take you through some of the types of blogs, how they are used by readers,
how they are maintained. It will also look at who needs a blog and why
and give some basic advice on how to go about blog creation and maintenance.
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JOB
APPLICATIONS
Carole Brown
9am – 4pm, 17 October—$535 ND
The ability to write excellent job applications is an essential skill
for today’s competitive employment market. In this course participants
will learn how to promote their skills and experience through the written
application to maximum effect.
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PLAIN
ENGLISH FOR BUSINESS AND GOVERNMENT
Bob Bolitho
9am - 4pm, 31 July - $535ND
9am - 4pm, 14 October - $535ND
Both private and public sector employers require their personnel to
write in a reader-friendly way that communicates a clear message, produces
results and saves time, effort and money. This course presents plain
English methods and it explains how office writers can integrate them
into language that is clear without being condescending, friendly without
being substandard. The course is in accord with best business practice
and Commonwealth style.
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WRITING
ARTICLES FOR THE WEB
Gillian Polack
9am–4.45pm, 31 October —$535 ND
Writing for the web is not as straightforward as it appears. Every site
has its own needs. Additionally, whether a reader actually reads the
writing on a site and pays attention to its contents depends very much
on the writing being tailored to the readers' expectations. This course
looks at some of the variables in this writer/reader equation and how
to address them.
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WRITING
CLEARLY IN GOOD ENGLISH
Bob Bolitho
9am -4pm, 23 & 24 June - $795 ND
9am–4pm, 4 & 5 September—$795 ND
9am–4pm, 12 & 13 November —$795 ND
Purists may moralise about endless English usage errors. Most readers
are more forgiving but do care when persistent usage issues cause them
to struggle with a writer’s logic and clarity. Clarity suffers
when, as writers, we use wrong words, questionable grammar, random punctuation
and illogical links between ideas.This course helps writers to understand
what today’s readers expect of job-related writing and to feel
less intimidated by suggestions that their writing is not good English.
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